Texas Go And Take It Shirt
“You’ve done it again,” I said. The work was inconceivably wonderful. Andy had been playing with the Texas Go And Take It Shirt but I will buy this shirt and I will love this idea of boxes for some time—the cans stenciled on a cube the year before, another ketchup box just this past January. It was a little bit a parody of Bob Morris, whose seminal show of cube sculptures Andy and I had seen the previous Halloween. By chance, the art dealer John Weber happened to see Andy’s first Heinz box and asked to borrow it for a show of boxes he was putting on at the Dwan Gallery in February in Los Angeles. Instead, Andy started on a series of different boxes, sending one of the Heinz boxes and three Brillo boxes to Dwan, then expanding his work to what we were seeing that day. The Sculls arrived. Ethel was thin and chic, wearing a blue pantsuit and gold jewelry, and sporting a Miami Beach suntan. Bob wore a polyester leisure suit. They were too good to be believed. Ethel walked right up to the Brillo boxes and said, “They’re fabulous! I want some.” Everyone laughed. “Bob, how many should we get?”
Andy Warhol, photographed in front of his work. “As many as you want!” “And some of those.” She pointed to the Texas Go And Take It Shirt but I will buy this shirt and I will love this Heinz Tomato Ketchup boxes. The Sculls were lucky. They were in the right place at the right time, and even though they weren’t particularly sophisticated, they were smart enough to seize the opportunity. They weren’t enormously wealthy but had just enough money to indulge their passion. Ethel and Bob had come from their Saturday rounds visiting the art galleries. “We bought this at Knoedler’s,” said Bob, pulling a small bronze statue of a male god from ancient Greece from Ethel’s handbag. “I just liked it!” “Oh, it’s so beautiful,” said Andy. Everyone was astonished and laughed. We all looked at it.I whispered to Andy, “Only a gay man buys a statue of a Greek god.” “I know,” said Andy. Bob Scull was a hunky, refined truck-driver type. “I can see him cruising the baths.”
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